Deep Water Sessions – A Shared Journey

1. Introduction
2. The stages or ‘faces’ of climate grief
3. Helping each other tell the truth
4. Creating language and practice for lament
5. Befriending mortality
6. Wisdom and love
7. The place of blame, forgiveness and justice
8. Redefining hope

Resources and patterns

• Each other; our sessions and the conversations and practices that we will share;
• The sessions – a shared journey:
• Our own emotions and reflections, interests and passions, perspectives and struggles;
• The materials sent ahead of each session: Readings, poems, images, stories, rituals, questions, quotes;
• Our surroundings and contexts – both natural and social – and our experiences;
• The perspectives of Borrowed Time and its intentions;
• Spirituality that recognises that the challenge is more than economic, political, scientific or technological, and that it is open to new expression and experience;
• Our thinking and reflecting between sessions – the use of a journal is recommended.

Session Structure

Each gathering takes 90 minutes, usually once per week over eight weeks.

• Welcomes and short reflection/prayer
• In small, confidential groups (which remain the same week by week) each person shares their response to the week’s materials
• Feedback from breakout groups, including new insights which have emerged during the session
• Whole group reflective space
• Closing prayer